Posted on 09/09/2009 6:59:44 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The snake-oil salesman in chief offered “his” healthcare prescriptions this Wednesday night. What he’s been selling the last 5 months is anyone’s guess, but be that as it may, here are my reactions to tonight’s message written as I listened (a sort of delayed live blog, as it were).
First of all let’s be honest. Anything the President said tonight really isn’t very meaningful. After all, the bills have already been written and are out of committee. No rewrites will be in the offing because of what Obama said tonight. But the fact that he assembled this joint session is evidence that he knows he is in trouble with his healthcare ideas. This was a Hail Mary pass, for sure.
Obama started with his assessment of the economy since when he spoke to Congress last. “A full and vibrant economy is still many months away,” he told us. Naturally he claimed that his “bold and decisive” actions pulled us back from the brink. This is a tad hard to believe as we are still seeing deep job losses.
Obama opened his healthcare discussion by saying he is “determined to be the last” president to discuss healthcare. This is a bit odd since he is proposing that government take over our healthcare system. Realizing that federalizing our healthcare system certainly means that every president from this point forward will have to deal with healthcare. If “his” plan gets through he most assuredly won’t be the “last” president to talk about healthcare. Many, many more presidents will have this mess to deal with.
The president started with a litany of all the troubles our healthcare system exhibits but one thing was interesting: Now he’s down to 30 million citizens without insurance! In past speeches he’s said it was 46 million. What happened to 16 million people? Curiouser and curiouser.
Obama again went on to mouth the claims that he wants bi-partisanship in this bill, but that does not square with the fact that he hasn’t invited any GOP leaders to the White House to discuss healthcare since April!
Here’s his bullet point details for those that have insurance
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Who can forget this?
Obama campaigned on SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE
(notice the audience)
SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk
Obama is such a LIAR!
Nothing but blue sky!
What would you expect from a natural born sneak, cheat and Liar!
If this was about the uninsured then they should just fix the one or two items and then get back to us with the results in 10 years with a progress report.
After listening to the speech, there is no guaranty of anything that was being stated, other than Government meddling, new regulations more taxes!!!
Further, any time the Government gets into the business of making decisions, they leave it up to bureaucrats which have plenty of administrators, meetings and group decisions; therefore there will be means testing created by panels of Government members and “Friends of Government”…so is he lying now or will everyone be lying later? Just think of all the times that Congress has made promises then changes everything as a generational or circumstantial imperative.
He's incapable of acknowledging any positive aspects of our heath care system which is the envy of the world.
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